Brandon Morgan – Dalan Wells – Gay Marine Homecoming Kiss Goes Viral

A Marines homecoming photo from Kaneohe has gained worldwide attention Gina Mangieri joins us to explain.

Gina Mangieri: Source: LYBIO.net
Joe, the two men kissing in the photo say they never intended for this to become the phenomenon it has in just a few days on Facebook.

SGT. Brandon Morgan returned Wednesday from a six-month deployment to Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan.

There to meet him on the tarmac at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe was his boyfriend of four years Dalan Wells, they say, their friend Dave Lewis arrived a bit late but just in time to snap the photo. They posted on Facebook the next day and then a friend asked if he could post it to the Facebook group called Gay Marines, from there it went viral garnering tens of thousands of likes and countless reposts.

SGT. Brandon Morgan:
It is a homecoming picture. Gay, straight, Lesbian no matter who you are, love is love. We haven’t fought for more rights or better rights than others, we fought for equal rights and now we have them.

Dalan Wells:
I’m a very shy, private person, so the only reason. I would even be doing something this crazy is because of that, and if this saves one kid who says, you know look at this guy, he went and joined the Marine Corps, his life is great, you know, then maybe that will give them the courage to hang on.

Gina Mangieri: Source: LYBIO.net
About 7,000 comments as of this evening many are cheerfully positive, some are bitterly negatively and hateful. Others in the middle saying, they don’t want to see so much public display of affection, whether a guy or straight. A spokesperson for Marine Corps Base Hawaii, said in the statement it’s your typical homecoming photo. Less than a year ago, when the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was still in effective display of such a photo would have been frowned upon SGT. Morgan says all of his superiors have expressed tremendous support in light of the attention from the photo.